How to Make an HTML Cheat Sheet

These days, it’s very easy to create entire Web sites without ever learning a single HTML tag, but there are still times when you want to hand edit the HTML on your Web pages. An HTML cheat sheet organizes the most commonly used HTML tags onto one A4 (U.S. Legal Size) page that you can keep next to your computer or tacked up on the wall for easy reference. You can buy HTML cheat sheets from various sources, but it’s just as easy to make your own if you know where to find the basic information to include in it.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• A word processing program
• A4 (legal size) paper
• A table of HTML tags
• Laminator, Clear adhesive paper or Sheet protector

1. Use a search engine to find an HTML cheat sheet that you like and is easy to read. Many are in PDF or PNG format for easy printing.
2. Download the cheat sheet file to your computer.
3. Open the file in the appropriate application— Adobe Acrobat for .PDFs, a graphics program for .PNG files, or Word for .DOC files.
4. Set up your printer settings to print on A4 paper. If A4 is not a choice, use Legal size, or 8 1/2” x 14” for paper settings.
5. Print your cheat sheet on good quality paper or card stock.
6. Laminate the cheat sheet if you have access to a laminator. If you don’t, you can slip it into a legal size document protector, or use transparent adhesive paper like Contact brand paper to protect it.

Tips & Warnings

• You can create a custom HTML cheat sheet in a word processing document using just the HTML elements that you use the most.